Re: What if ONLY the QA Team could report bugs?

----- Original Message ----- From: Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 2:57:38 PM To: Zak Greant <zak@nucleus.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-QA] What if ONLY the QA Team could report bugs? > ZG>> Based on looking at the bug database this morning, I would guess > ZG>> that by doing this we would be able to screen out between 20 and > ZG>> 50% of the reports. As the PHP/QA team gains experience, this > ZG>> percentage should rise. > > We could easily close 50% of bug reports. Only problem is that we don't > know _which_ 50% is it :) > > ZG>> We could try this out simply by sitting on the php-dev list and reviewing > ZG>> each bug report as the report is submitted. > > Good idea. You could also mark it as "analyzed" or something alike and/or > solicit feedback from users when data is incomplete and/or produce short > (and I mean short - some users submit 5k scripts with DB accesses etc. - > though most problems can be reproduced under 10 lines of code) reproducing > script. This would make fixing much faster - as soon as you definitely > know where the problem is, many chances somebody knows what's the problem > (after all, somebody wrote that code ;) No comments to add really - just wanted to ack that someone has read this :) Sounds goods! - Zak